Hi Lisi, if Leneovo will work i highly prefer Lenevo. I think its right , I should go for a Lenevo without nvidia, than Lenevo is ok?
I will have a look tomorrow, also need to sleep a little... Have a good night, sleep well and thanks for Your help! Best regards, Peter Am Samstag, den 10.10.2015, 23:51 +0100 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > On Saturday 10 October 2015 22:51:17 Peter Berlau wrote: > > I still like Lenevo most, but i not very familar in "making hardware run > > under Debian"... > > As I said in the beginning, I have a strong "emotional" attachment to Lenovo. > > And traditionally Lenovo laptops have been very good with Linux. There is > even a site dedicated to Linux users and IBM has some excellent on-line free > tuition for linux users. > > See this page for information on which models Lenovo considers to be > particularly Linux friendly: > http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/faqs/pc-life-faqs/what-is-Linux/ > See the bottom of the page: > What Lenovo laptops are certified to run Linux? > > But NVidia has shown itself recently to be fairly Linux unfriendly and has > been problematic. I think that it may be OK with proprietary drivers, but > the free ones seem to involve the addition of Bumblebee and a lot of > fiddling. I don't know whether all current Lenovo laptops have NVidia > graphics. The certified ones probebly don't. > > > The acer is pretty new model, comes out her in 15. Oct. i think... > > In general terms, "new hardware" and "Linux" in the same breath rings alarm > bells. There could be driver problems. > > Forgive me for the gaps. It is late and I need my bed. :-( > > Lisi >